Four military intelligence officers are sentenced to up to three years in jail, after they threw sulphuric acid over a human rights activist in a brazen attack in Central Jakarta... .
Four military officers are facing trial over an acid attack on an Indonesian human rights campaigner that left him seriously disfigured. But some lawyers say the legal process is a "sham" ... .
Rescue efforts for two remaining men believed to be trapped in a cave in central Laos have shifted to investigating deep vertical tunnels in the jungle ... .
The suggestion of levying ships using the Malacca Strait was suggested and then walked back by Indonesia's finance minister, but it has prompted a response from Canberra... .
A tense exchange between the United States and Iran, recorded by a sailor in the Persian Gulf who has been speaking with the ABC, shows the extremely fraught situation in the Strait of Hormuz, as a fragile ceasefire hangs in the balance ... .
Countries heavily reliant on imported oil are particularly vulnerable to the unfolding energy crisis caused by the US-Israel war with Iran. It's no more apparent than in South-East Asian countries like the Philippines... .